Introduction and Review
ClassDoji is a powerful education app that aims to provide users with a safe and smooth communication platform for users of students, educators, as well as parents. Rated 4.8 stars out of 5 by 2.5 million users all around the world, the app will realize a cooperative classroom community for millions of students and offer teachers interactive tools to encourage students to learn skills in modes of “Working hard” and “Teamwork”. To ensure that parents will also stay tuned to the information, teachers can share photos and videos of classroom moments to get parents better understand the progress of the class. Also, special announcements can also be delivered via ClassDojo to realize timely notification. If there is any problem, teachers can get in touch with parents instantly and chat privately to guarantee the privacy of every student. Apart from school updates, parents can also access the updates of their children at home. Class Dojo helps teachers create a friendly and efficient environment to teach classes and encourages effective and smooth communication among all users. The app is free of charge and is suitable for K-12 educators, students, and parents to take advantage of. What’s more, school leaders from more than 180 nations are in the international community of ClassDoji as well, realizing effective and fruitful communication among educators as well in order to improve teaching performance and quality. The app is compatible with almost all kinds of digital devices, varying from iPads and iPhones to tablets. Finally, parents can consider subscribing to the ClassDojo Plus to enjoy more exclusive features. Though we have talked about various advantages of the app, that is not the whole story. The app provides users with a 7-day free trial, and to enjoy additional features, users have to purchase those features after the end of the trial. The updates also tend to ignore the frequent requests from users in terms of the notification loss bug. Furthermore, some users find the app quite elementary and don’t feature complicated functions of course and grade management tools. Generally speaking, ClassDojo is a helpful educational tool for users to use in education circumstances. Despite its before-mentioned flaws, the strengths of the app can never be denied. The app brings all members of the school community to a safe, healthy, and efficient environment.
Updates
ClassDojo has been going through regular updates on a monthly basis. In its earliest update record shown on the App Store of version 9.39.0 on September 3rd, 2022, some messaging improvements had been achieved and some bugs in sharing and other general issues had been fixed. In its most recent update of version 9.63.0 on January 6th, 2023, the family approval flow for teachers had been improved together with other bug fixes. To sum up, ClassDojo updates the app regularly and clearly informs its users of the details of the updates.
Features
1. The app is a useful tool for students, educators, and parents to communicate with each other.
2. For teachers, the app is a powerful teaching assistant tool.
3. Through functions like “Teamwork”, teachers can motivate students to actively learn skills.
4. Teachers can keep the parents updated on the classroom information by sharing with parents the photos and videos as well as announcements.
5. Parents can use the app to keep informed of the updates of their children.
6. The app is specially designed for the K12 school community.
7. Users can install the app for free.
8. A 7-day trial can be enjoyed by new users of the app.
9. School leaders from more than 180 nations have joined the app as well.
10. A real-time communication can be realized.